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Caribbean & Central America - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)
HONDURAS: Extreme rhetoric makes for tensions in final weeks
Final polls released on the publication deadline (23-24 October) for the 24 November Honduran general election suggest a dead heat between the presidential candidate for the conservative ruling Partido Nacional (PN), former congress leader Juan Orlando Hernández, and Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, who effectively is running as a proxy candidate for her husband, the ousted former president Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009), under the banner of his new left-wing party, Libertad y Refundación (Libre). The US ambassador Lisa Kubiske, who says the US will work with whoever wins, has warned about the need for cool heads in the face of potentially tight results on the day.
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